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Article: Opposite sex sleep-over policy sent packing at Ole Miss
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 23, 1997
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The right to have overnight visitors of the opposite sex is but a
dream to students in the dormitories at the University of
Mississippi. A new policy allowing "sleep-overs" on weekends was
scheduled to take effect last weekend but was scrapped by university
officials amid complaints from parents, state lawmakers and
religious leaders. "They caught somebody sleeping on that one.
That's bad, bad, bad policy," said state Sen. Hillman Frazier.
"We're still the Bible Belt. Some things are a no-no in our state,
especially when it deals with state tax dollars."
No college in Mississippi allows men and women to share dorm rooms
overnight. Public colleges in neighboring Alabama and ...